The Chambers

Chapter 1:

Beginning (Black Bolt's POV)

"Every pony has their own life story to share."

Hello, nice to meet you. My name's Black Bolt. I'm not much of a talker though. I'm just your average pegasus, working short days and sleeping long nights.

Sometimes on Fridays I'll relax to a nice apple cider, but other than that, I'm just your average overlooked pony. I do have one hobby though, and that's flying.

I often do these things called "Boomerang Booms", where I loop around and all you hear is a boom with some dark clouds. No one really likes them because they are overlooked by Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainbooms.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. Rainbow Dash and I are good friends. We met in flight school, and have been friends ever since. I kinda do have a crush on her, but I'm pretty sure I'll be rejected straight away if I ask her out.

But, that's just a snip of my life. But now we get to "that" day. That horrible nightmare.......

It was a normal Friday. It was after work, so Rainbow and I were just fooling around, just casually flying. Nothing too interesting. But suddenly out of nowhere, Applejack asks for some help.

"Heya Rainbow, I'm in needin' of some help. Couldja deliver these here apples to Flutters? She's been askin' for em' since yesterday. I'd deliver them mahself, but Big Macintosh and all the rest of tha family are helpin' buckin apples!"

"Nah, I'm kinda busy. Do you mind doin 'em, Black?" Rainbow replied.

"Why sure, why shouldn't I?" I responded gleefully. I picked up the sack of apples and headed over to Fluttershy's house. I knocked on the door casually.

"Um, oh hello.." Fluttershy murmured out.

"Oh, hey. Applejack said you needed these apples?" I said.

Fluttershy responded with a quiet "Yes" and I came in and I carefully placed the sack of apples on her table.

"Oh, um, thank you. Is there anything I could do to help you? I have got a nice flower salad ready," Fluttershy asked me.

"Oh, why that would be wonderful!" I said cheerfully and sat down on a seat.

Fluttershy gave me a plate with all sorts of delicious flowers. I paciently waited for Fluttershy to sit down before I started eating.

After I finished all of it, I responded with a simple "Thank you" and I headed out. By now it was really dark out, so I started gliding to my house.

I made a bit of a pit stop near the Everfree Forest, but I noticed something in the bushes. It was the size of a pony, but it couldn't be a real pony. Who would go into the Everfree Forest at this time of night?

I took a bit of a glance over to see what it was, and I couldn't quite work out what it was. It looked like it was digging, so I left it alone and I just gracefully glided home and fell asleep. But what iI saw kept me up most of the night. What was it? I drew several sketches, and decided tomorrow night I would look for it. But, by now I was very tired, so I just tried to sleep.

I woke up to a certain cyan pony looking directly into my eyes. The result is that I clumsily kick off my sheets and get in a fighting stance.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT!!!" I scream at her but then suddenly realized that it was Rainbow Dash.

"Oh, sorry. You scared me." I calmly say to her.

"Nah, it's okay." she says to me.

"So, what are you doing here?" I ask her.

"Nothin' much, just waiting FOR YOU TO GET UP AND HELP ME TRAIN FOR THE WONDERBOLTS!!!!!!!!!!!!" she shouts at me. I fall over.

"Woah, I'm sorry, it's just, I saw something after I came back home from Fluttershy's house. It kept me up all night." I mention to her.

"What was it?" she asks. That was one of the strangest parts of that day, she's just been known to be a bragger.

"I drew some sketches of what I saw." I point towards my pile of scattered pencils and papers laying on my desk. She goes through them.

"Woah, is that Gilda?" she questions.

"Who's Gilda?" I ask her.

"She was a friend of mine in Flight School. She's a griffion." She quietly replies. "She left after I heard about the way she was treating Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy..." What was strange about this is that this the only time she has been sad.

"Oh, okay..." I spoke in soft words. "I'll be ready soon."

I walked into the bathroom and took a quick shower before I looked out to see Rainbow Dash crying.

"Not again...." she quietly muttered. I didn't know what happened before, but it must of been horrible if she was crying.

I quickly dried my mane and hopped out. I looked out the window quickly and saw 2 things of interest. 1 was Pinkie Pie dating a stallion, which was weird in itself. He looked like a war veteran or something, but he was still fairly young. Wait, wasn't she supposed to be on that "Save the Human Race" project or something? But I saw this pony with a black notebook, which was of interest to me. I didn't know what it exactly was, but I just decided to leave it alone.

I came up to Rainbow Dash and saw her crying. I pretended I didn't see her before, but I just started hugging her.

"What's wrong?" I gently asked her.

"Years before I met you and I was still in Flight School, Gilda did something...... weird. She dug a hole and not long after, someone who I was best friends with and possibly liked in a romantic kind of way disappeared out of nowhere." she explained to me. I gently hugged her.

"It's okay..... everything will be fine." I silently said to her. But wait, if she was crying because she lost someone she loved when she was in flight school, does that mean she loves.... me? No, it would be impossible. She's never loved anyone!

"So, are you ready to train for the Wonderbolts?" I asked her.

".... I don't want to train today. I just want to relax today." she murmured to me.

"Okay, just come back here if you still want to train." But before she could hear the end of it, she bolted away, out of sight.